>. It reverted affected UK iCloud data to Standard Data Protection, where Apple does hold the keys and can respond to lawful legal procress (except the baseline categories that stay end-to-end encrypted either way). This satisfied the underlying legal requirement without ever building a ‘backdoor’.

Ah, just like that.

Of course something that is just possible in the public eye, after a lot of public scrutiny and for all accounts at once.

A single account, in secret? IMPOSSIBLE!

They never needed to build a backdoor....

Yeah I read the next few paragraphs and I've seen the turn off button....